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'The View' Sorry It Dissed Duke City
Journal Staff Report
Sorry, Albuquerque.
“We made a big boo-boo,” said Meredith Vieira, moderator of ABC-TV’s “The View,” which on Thursday dissed Duke City and infuriated city leaders and residents alike.
The program issued what Vieira called a “correction” Friday.
The city’s unemployment rate is about 5 percent, and “we had it higher,” she said. The show had it at 33 percent.
The average personal income, she said, is over $27,000. It was $21,000, on Thursday’s show.
The Huning Highland neighborhood and the East Downtown, or EDO, development project were part of a segment on “up and coming” areas. It was more like “down and out” on Thursday.
Real estate expert Barbara Corcoran of New York had dubbed “EDO, New Mexico, an urban evolution” as one of five places where buyers can get inexpensive houses just ahead of revitalization.
Video of decrepit homes, Corcoran’s assurance houses there are cheap because “one-third of the town is unemployed” and other disparaging remarks resulted in “hundreds of outraged people” calling the Mayor’s Office.
“In saying EDO will be a great place to live, we didn’t mean to suggest that it isn’t already,” Vieira said. “We stand corrected, EDO: A nice place to live, now and later.”
Nice to know they're held to the same journalistic standards, such as fact checking, as the rest of us.
Journal Staff Report
Sorry, Albuquerque.
“We made a big boo-boo,” said Meredith Vieira, moderator of ABC-TV’s “The View,” which on Thursday dissed Duke City and infuriated city leaders and residents alike.
The program issued what Vieira called a “correction” Friday.
The city’s unemployment rate is about 5 percent, and “we had it higher,” she said. The show had it at 33 percent.
The average personal income, she said, is over $27,000. It was $21,000, on Thursday’s show.
The Huning Highland neighborhood and the East Downtown, or EDO, development project were part of a segment on “up and coming” areas. It was more like “down and out” on Thursday.
Real estate expert Barbara Corcoran of New York had dubbed “EDO, New Mexico, an urban evolution” as one of five places where buyers can get inexpensive houses just ahead of revitalization.
Video of decrepit homes, Corcoran’s assurance houses there are cheap because “one-third of the town is unemployed” and other disparaging remarks resulted in “hundreds of outraged people” calling the Mayor’s Office.
“In saying EDO will be a great place to live, we didn’t mean to suggest that it isn’t already,” Vieira said. “We stand corrected, EDO: A nice place to live, now and later.”
Nice to know they're held to the same journalistic standards, such as fact checking, as the rest of us.
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